This week's External Influence is the Spirit Guide Thylacine! This creature is an extinct species originating from Australia. Also known as the Tasmanian tiger or wolf, it actually is a large, carnivorous marsupial. As a spirit guide, they come when it is time to dive into the unknown and the mysteries of time. Reflect on your past with thoughtful consideration for your future. This week's energies will allow us to feel the independent strength found in the silent study of our inner depths, secrets, and the world's connections between past, present, and future. Understand that some questions will never be answered or fully explained. Allow yourself to let go of these heavy weights so that you are not halted in your progression. Don't go rushing into anything, either. Use silence to focus. It is ok to be in the background this week as you build passion and strength through this quiet, cautious, and thoughtful time. You don't need praise to feel accomplished. Introspection will aid you in reaching your goals.

This week's Rune features Ehwaz. This rune is recognized as two horses face another or two upright trees bound together. This represents the bond between the divine twins and shows that this Rune is a symbol of partnership, movement, harmony, and duality. It contains the spirit of the twin Gods, emphasizing the balance that comes from the positive interactions of harmony within two polar opposites. Seen in ways such as the turning to the warm summer and cold winter seasons. Also associated with horses, Ehwaz embodies movement in the duality of partnership by a horse and it's rider. This can also include the movement between realities or states of perception. The movement in a journey. Ehwaz is a great aid when working to increase lucid dreaming, travels to other dimensions of being, understanding the harmony in relationships, as well as working with your spirit guides or increasing wisdom. When this Rune shows, it can indicate that you are being protected or guided through your journey with a great importance placed on partnerships and teamwork. This week may include a person who appears to aid you in advancing in your journey. This could be a relationship, a marriage, a business partner, or a form of spirit guide. Ehwaz represents the astral plan, lucid dreaming, and the energetic part of your being that can be projected outside of your body. This week may include messages in dreams that will be important to pay attention to. Overall, know that there will be support and guidance from a source that will help you in the next steps of your inner quest.

This week's Internal Influence is the spirit guide Heron. Within you are vast amounts of innate wisdom so take the time to let yourself acknowledge and explore that. This guide reminds us the importance of grounding. Study this technique and increase your meditation so that you can work on diving into your own psyche in order to explore, expand, and strengthen your own self-reliance and talents. Often, the Heron spirit guide teaches self-reliance through your own unique and personalized ways. Don't let yourself get sucked into being like everyone else or by following in another's path. Reach your goals in your own ways even if others may view it as unconventional. Watch for opportunities this week. By regularly grounding yourself, this will enable you to recognize when an opportunity has appeared and you will be able to know when the perfect moment to act is here. If you feel overwhelmed or uncomfortable, try to remind yourself of your own resourcefulness. Focus on tact and forethought so that you feel more comfortable and ready to take on what may be around you this week. Over all, the Heron reminds us how much we can learn from working on our independence and self-care. Take time to work on yourself, but also include time to straighten up your home.